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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through North: Pages 73-94.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many hours did it take Harjo's family to drive to the location of her mother's final public singing performance?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

2. What sport did Harjo's stepfather enjoy watching on television when he was not beating or berating his family?
(a) Tennis.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Golf.
(d) Football.

3. What form of writing did Harjo's mother enjoy creating the most?
(a) Novels.
(b) Poems.
(c) Plays.
(d) Songs.

4. What is NOT an item Harjo mentions when she describes how her mother "dressed for her musical coming-out party" (50)?
(a) Perfume.
(b) Frills.
(c) Denim.
(d) Satin.

5. What nationality and tribe does Harjo mention when she calls Leona May Baker "a potent meeting of storytellers, teachers, and musicians" (31)?
(a) Irish and Cherokee.
(b) Scottish and Sioux.
(c) Irish and Modoc.
(d) English and Apache.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what type of haunted building did Harjo and her family once live when they had no money for rent?

2. Harjo reports that John Staudenmaier had taught her to "pay attention to the poetry of" (77) what?

3. How many of Harjo's mother's children attended her second wedding ceremony?

4. In what decade of her life did Harjo revisit her desire to create music?

5. What is the color of the northerly direction, according to the epigraph for the aforementioned part?

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